bowden Family History Facts 1920

bowden Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of several places called Bowden or Bowdon. Bowden in Devon and Derbyshire and Bowdon in Cheshire are named with Old English boga ‘bow’ + dun ‘hill’, i.e. ‘hill shaped like a bow’; one in Leicestershire (Bugedone in Domesday Book) comes, according to Ekwall, from the Old English personal name Buga (masculine) or Bucge (feminine) + dun. There are also Scottish places of this name, but there are comparatively few bearers of the surname Bowden north of the border. In England the surname is found most frequently in Lancashire and in the West Country. In Devon and Cornwall there has been some confusion with the Norman personal name Baldwin.
English: habitational name from Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, so named with the Old English phrase bufan dune ‘on, upon the hill’. The surname may also have arisen as a topographic name from the same phrase used independently, for someone who lived at the top of a hill.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’, an Old Irish personal name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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BOWDEN Evelyn R 1929 2006 cross	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
BOWDEN Lee H 1927 2001 pvt US Army Korea	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
BOWDEN Mary C 1905 1979 together forever	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
BOWDEN Lloyd F 1900 1964 together forever	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
BOWDEN Annie L 1893 1980	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
BOWDEN/BODEN families in MI	TLS49321	9
BOWDEN D M 1888 1962 \	t42GreenAcres_JohnsonCoTX	0
Willie C Bowden	shalinathomas	0
Warren Edward Bowden	shalinathomas	0
Charles R Bowden	shalinathomas	0